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This Third Edition of Modern Money and Banking helps readers keep up with the fast paced world of finance. It presents today's questions and answers-ensuring that readers have the most accurate and current information available. The success of the previous two editions stem from the book's presentation of money and banking theories, concepts, and applications in a manner that guarantees high interest and full understanding. . . and this edition continues to carry over that proven formula. In addition readers can expect the very latest statistics and information on the controversies and problems facing the world of money and banking today: changes in the savings and loan industry; changes in regulation and legislation; modern developments in theory; and international aspects of money and banking.

Traditionally the international economics course has primarily been aimed at students working on an economics major. Today, a broad range of courses in global economic issues and policies are drawing students from a number of disciplines, such as accounting, marketing, political science, and business. This well-known author team created Global Economic Issues and Policies to address the growing needs of students that might experience this subject for the first time. The goal of the text is to emphasize current public-policy issues, which will be used to illustrate essential concepts of international trade and finance. The authors focused their theoretical discussions by staying within the guidelines of the basic economic principles.

This policy brief evaluates the banking and policy implications of 2006 Congressional legislation authorizing the Federal Reserve to pay interest on reserves held at Federal Reserve banks beginning in October 2011. This upcoming policy change has received remarkably little attention from the financial media, yet it promises to have effects along several dimensions. Likely to be impacted are total reserves held by depository institutions, the interest sensitivities of these institutions' asset holdings, balances in sweep accounts managed by depository institutions, and depository institutions intraday overdrafts of their reserve accounts at Federal Reserve banks. In addition, the authorization to pay interest on reserves broadens the set of tools of monetary policy available to the Fed. Finally, this policy change strengthens the case for significant reductions in, or possibly elimination of, reserve requirements on U.S. depository institutions.